These are all entries that I wasn't able to post due to crappy internet. I have also expanded on some of them because I am not as tired as I was when originally writing them.
Today we traveled to Arashiyama. It was a little bit cloudy but it didn't look like it was going to rain which was a good thing. Arashiyama is a very pretty area with a river and many scenic paths, shops and walkways. Several of us walked down the river for a bit. We saw several heron and a lot of koi. Beautiful Japanese boats floated up and down the river propelled by men with long sticks that reached down to the river bed. On the path alongside us men in funny shoes pulled rickshaws with one or two passengers.
We had heard of a monkey park in Arashiyama and set out to find it. A person pointed us across the bridge. We followed the road there and soon saw signs marking the direction of the monkey park. We climbed a small hill and found the entrance to the park. It was 500 yen to get in, but Marietta negotiated with the lady and since we had 7 people it was only 250 each. Marietta rules.
Once again, we were in for a climb to get up to the place where the monkeys were. It took a good 20 minutes to climb up to the top of this small mountain. Once we got close we could see monkeys swinging in the trees above us! We got excited. At the top there were tons of monkeys! They were everywhere frolicking, picking bugs off each other, climbing. They would run right past us and we could go right up to them. We also had a great view of Kyoto from this peak, this setting was great.
We went up to the top of the monkey park and sat for a few minutes. All of the sudden this monkey started walking towards Annalise and growling at her then coming at her! She got up and screamed and ran and it stopped. She was scared! Then another monkey chased after Taylor. We had enough of being at the top. We started going down. I will never forget Marietta trying to stay calm saying, "I am a little bit scared right now." HAHA! oh man it was great.
We took a ton of pictures and for one right before we left Marietta bent down and reached her hand towards a little baby monkey. The monkey reached and gently grabbed her finger and I got the perfect picture capturing the moment! It was amazing.
Heading down the mountain we found a playground with a zipline that we all tried. We were al entertained by the playground. We then made it all the way down and headed for the bamboo forest trail. We got lost trying to get there but it was beautiful when we walked through it.
We headed back to the hotel and I took a short nap... about 2 hours. After that Annalise and I went to get some food at Nakau on Sanjo street. (Na-ka-u-te, oh oh oh oh oh! Gohan o tabeyo!) It was the cheapest and easiest transaction meal I had eaten the whole trip.
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